Enhancing innate immune responses to influenza in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1045762

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Infection with influenza is a serious health problem for all, but particularly those with chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Current treatments are limited. We have previously shown that human COPD airway cells are more susceptible to infection with influenza and the virus is able to effectively block the early immune response. We propose to define the mechanism that underlie this and design novel inhibitors to enhance the early immune response of these cells and reduce the effects of infection.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2013

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $522,323.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Respiratory Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | infection | inflammation | influenza | innate immunity

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